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Children UK Reward Summary for UK based Employees

Save the Children UK employee salaries and benefits are benchmarked against the UK charity sector. The reward package includes the following:

Salary

A review of salaries usually takes place each April. Salary awards will take into account an assessment of individual performance.
A minimum of six months service is required to be eligible.

Hours of Work and Flexible Working

The standard working week at Save the Children UK is 35 hours. Start and finish times can be agreed between employee and manager. Flexibility of working hours may be required to meet Save the Children’s varying needs. A number of posts are offered on a part-time basis and there is potential for job sharing in some roles.

Holiday Entitlement

The basic allowance is 25 days leave per year (pro rata for part timers). After five years this increases to 27.5 days and after 10 years it rises further to 30 days. As well as the 8 public holidays there is an additional “Save the Children Day” immediately before or after Christmas. The date is set by Save the Children UK.

Sick Pay

Maximum sickness pay is one month of full salary and one month of half salary after the first year of service (pro rata before). This increases to a maximum of six months of full pay.

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Service

Maximum

0-1 Year

1 months full pay : 1 months half pay, pro rata

1 year

1 months full pay: 1 months half pay

2 years

2 months full pay: 2 months half pay

3 years

3 months full pay: 3 months half pay

4 years

4 months full pay: 4 months half pay

5 years

5 months full pay: 5 months half pay

6 years

6 months full pay: 6 months half pay

Maternity/Adoption Arrangements
After working for Save the Children for six months, full and part-time employees
are entitled to 21 weeks full maternity/adoption pay. A reduced entitlement applies
to staff with less than six months service. All employees, regardless of the length
of their employment, are entitled to 52 weeks statutory maternity leave. Please
see the table below.

Completed continuous service in months at 2 weeks before commencement of EWC

Occupational Maternity Pay, i.e. normal full pay

1 month

3.5 weeks full pay

2 month

7 weeks full pay

3 month

10.5 weeks full pay

4 month

14 weeks full pay

5 month

17.5 weeks full pay

6 month

21 weeks full pay

Special Leave
Up to 10 days per rolling year are permitted (pro rata for part time employees),
without loss of earnings or annual leave, when an urgent and exceptional domestic
situation or personal crisis arises.

Childcare Vouchers
Parents can spend up to £243 per month on childcare vouchers via salary sacrifice.
This method frees the benefit from income tax and National Insurance contributions
and therefore delivers a significant employee saving.
Save the Children UK has appointed a partner, Edenred, to administer the scheme.

Learning & Development
Save the Children UK is committed to developing and enhancing people across the
organisation. Financial support and/or study leave may be offered to individuals
who are studying for professional qualifications.

Bursary Scheme
The scheme offers substantial one-off grants to help employees with 2 years service
gain either a vocational or academic qualification. Season Ticket Loan Interest-free
annual season ticket loans are available once any period of probation is complete.

Cycle to Work Scheme
This scheme provides a tax efficient way to obtain a bicycle and accessories up
to the value of £1,000.
Repayments are made over 12 months by means of salary sacrifice in order to obtain
full relief from both income tax and National Insurance. To be eligible, employees
need to have completed their probationary period and have an employment contract
which lasts for at least 12 months from the date the bicycle is collected. The arrangement
is run in partnership with Cyclescheme.

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
The EAP is a free, confidential service that offers expert advice, information and
counselling for all SC UK employees on a wide range of issues such as buying a new
home, starting a new job, having children, managing money and much more. The service
is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year both over the telephone
and online.

Pension & Life Assurance

New recruits will be automatically enrolled into a Group Personal Pension Plan (with the right to opt out) after a 3 month postponement period. This applies to everyone aged 22 and above but under state retirement age, earning at least £9,440 p.a. and classed as working in the UK.

Employer and employee contributions:

Length of pension membership

Employer contribution% of basic annual salary

Employee Contribution% of basic annual salary

On joining the scheme

5%

3%

After 12 months the member can choose to move up to either of these bands or stay
on the initial rates

6%

4%

7%

5%

Employee contributions are to be made by salary exchange, which gives full exemption
from income tax and National Insurance.

Save the Children UK will pay 50% of its employers National Insurance savings into
the fund to enhance the benefit further.

Death-in-service benefit will be 3 times salary for employees irrespective of whether
they are enrolled in the pension scheme or choose to opt out. There will be no dependants’ pensions.